Idioms of the week:

Pull yourself together

Comfort food

Lessons March 2024 Week 4

Walter Arnold was the first person to be fined for speeding in 1886.

He was driving his horseless carriage 13 km/h in a 3 km/h zone. 

A British policeman chased him on his bicycle for about eight km.

He was fined an equivalent of eight cents in American money.

He became famous and was one of the first car dealers.

March 16 is National Corndog Day.

A corndog is a sausage, usually a wiener, on a stick that has been coated in a thick layer of cornmeal batter and deep fried.

Newly arrived German immigrants in Texas introduced the corn dog to the United States.

Their German sausages weren’t popular so the tried deep frying them in a cornmeal batter.

In Japan, the most common name for them is "American dog".

Corn dogs are often served as street food.

A breakfast version of the corn dog is a breakfast sausage deep fried in pancake batter.

 It is commonly called a "pancake on a stick".

“Turn the house upside down” means “search everywhere in the house.”

I turned the house upside down, but I couldn’t find my car key.

“Drag one’s feet” means “deliberately take too much time to do something.”

The city council is dragging its feet on making the decision.